The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen’s 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled...(展开全部) The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen’s 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love—how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape Whole New Mess, Olsen’s first solo album since her 2012 debut and an emotional portrait so intimate and vulnerable you can hear her find meaning in these crises in real-time. At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to anyone who has heard All Mirrors, Olsen’s grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. “Lark,” “Summer,” “Chance”—they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. Instead, Whole New Mess is its own record with its own immovable mood, with Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest. If the lavish orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope of All Mirrors are the sound of Olsen preparing her scars for the wider world to see, Whole New Mess is the sound of her first figuring out their shape, making sense for herself of these injuries. Considered alongside All Mirrors, Whole New Mess is a poignant and pointed reminder that songs are more than mere collections of words, chords, and even melodies. They are webs of moods and moments and ideas, qualities that can change from one month to the next and can say just as much as the perfect progression or an exquisite chord. In that sense, these 11 songs—solitary, frank, and unflinching examinations of what it’s like to love, lose, and survive—are entirely new. This is the sound of Angel Olsen, sorting through the kind of trouble we’ve all known, as if just for herself and whoever else needs it.
0 有用 Mr.Flop 2020-10-21 07:08:13
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1 有用 Murr 2020-09-02 04:03:18
4+ 更喜欢这版
1 有用 PredatoryWasp 2024-06-23 23:25:34 北京
8.3/10 距离拉近了,制作不同但都很好听
0 有用 bjsn 2020-11-10 12:03:30
啥玩意儿
0 有用 SeaMonster 2020-09-02 14:27:33
lofi版的Chance更好哭了
1 有用 K45P3R 2023-02-28 21:57:17 甘肃
(8.2/10)如果说《All Mirrors》是Angel Olsen的呐喊,弦乐如同山顶的风煽动情绪的高涨,那么《Whole New Mess》就是仍然酝酿、储藏在胸腔里的这些呐喊。
1 有用 黎时水 2022-04-10 02:09:42
人声是最好的乐器
0 有用 Norman蝴蝶 2022-08-05 17:43:54
不搭
1 有用 时笙 2021-09-03 23:35:15
很爱这张,虽然很多歌在《Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories》那张都听过,还是好听啊。配乐太简单了,几乎就是清唱的听感,这dream-pop 的吟哦~pick《(summer song)》《Chance(Forever Love)》
1 有用 illusion 2023-10-10 19:19:31 江苏
all mirror摇身一变变成最初的唱作人民谣专,lo-fi质感,只新加了一首whole new mess和waving, smiling,听下来最惊喜的是tonight.